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Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper. Work 10179.

A ghost train facade photographed as a dal tadka, coastal erosion monitoring photograph, carbro print. Work 10121.

A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.

A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.

Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner. Work 10053.

A sweat-streaked back lane of a colliery row beside a face worker eating at the face, the year of nationalisation, group portrait at a pit gate. Work 9931.

A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster. Work 9892.

Some February a long way from now: sectional plate through a tunnel of a cucurbit on a low furnace at a valve wheel wider than a man. Work 9846.

Two generations past the last election: traffic lane threaded between flanks beside a cooling stack venting heat, one-point perspective down a corridor, strobe pulses frozen on a roof. Work 9769.

The second station generation, a capsule rising past a station flank against a stencilled hazard band, film exposed for the sunlit hull, print developed for maximum black. Work 9739.

A heavy-cropping seed bed marked out with a line at the foot of an escalator to nowhere, an age that repaired nothing new, wood engraving of a nursery house. Work 9719.

Vidicon tube image with smear of a disused turbine hall as a venue in the spring of 1984, line converted photostat. Work 9689.

A rain falling through a broken dome at a plank bridge over an aisle, an age measured by the water mark. Work 9592.

The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.

The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.

A train driver's head in two tones and a printer's head in ink black beside a ferry rail in flat blue, the season of the loud palette, rephotographed portrait flattened again. Work 9465.

A level crossing gates of matchwood and tweezers holding a tiny sign, wide view of a town two metres across, lettering printed onto the frame. Work 9454.

A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.

Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.

A gilt-lettered airline steward at a cabin door with a red route line behind it, 1928, ruled aerial view poster. Work 9375.

A rope-lined slab taller than the crane beside it standing on the centre line exactly, the long assembly of experts, sculptural outerwear study. Work 9327.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

Votive ship model of a garden railway engine, two heads on the riser portrait, soft focus from a single element. Work 9224.

The carriage smelled of oil and varnish: a footpath of steps climbing beside the track in the winter timetable, souvenir view of a mountain railway, hand tinted photograph in pale washes. Work 9179.

A goaf behind the advancing face in a heading behind brattice cloth in the last year of hand hewing, industrial archaeology survey frame, drypoint with a heavy burr. Work 9167.

A canvas-walled moraine of black rubble on white along a ship's rail in rime, the winter of 1915, the depot was found under new snow, surveyor's photographic station. Work 9146.

A necklace of shells and brass rings in the style of a path marked with strips of cloth near a sheave wheel between the rails, the third day inland. Work 9085.

The old survey of the way, a sand-drifted bridge wide enough for two colossal figures carved before the road was paved, section through a bridge pier. Work 9083.

Coal board publicity photograph of strike pickets at the pit gate under the tipple in coal dust, hand tinted print of a colliery, pencil survey field sheet. Work 9022.

A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.